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The Love Letters of Thomas Jefferson Withers to James Henry Hammond Future Governor of South Carolina

The letters of Thomas Jefferson Withers to James Hammond are a source for finding out the attitudes of elite Southern men before the Civil War….

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Study the End of the Civil War and Start of Reconstruction With South Carolina School Children Circa 1918

I wanted to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in the early 20th Century by…

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Study the Course of the Civil War With South Carolina School Children Circa 1918

I wanted to look at what South Carolina school children learned about the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in the early 20th Century by…

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Posted in Slavery Women and Gender

Lavinia C. Thompson-The Personal Story of Slavery and Civil War Webinar May 20, 2023

The new International African American Museum (IAAM) in charleston is offering another virtual program on South Carolina history. Here is the museum’s description of the…

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Penn Center Reconstruction Site in St. Helena S.C. Receives $2 Million Donation

The Penn Center in St. Helena, South Carolina was established in 1862 by Northern Abolitionists to provide educational assistance to freed Blacks seeking shelter in…

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How South Carolina Explained the Civil War & Reconstruction to Potential Immigrants in 1908

To encourage immigration from abroad, South Carolina published The Handbook of South Carolina in 1908. The book was designed to give foreigners considering a move…

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A Southern Belle Set a Child Molester Up as a Paragon of Christian Virtue for Black People

Virginia Clay-Cloptin was in her mid-30s when the Civil War began. The prominent wife of a United States senator who resigned from Congress when his…

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International African American Museum Opening in Charleston in January, 2023

Charleston’s new International African American Museum (IAAM) is set to open on January 21, 2023. Smithsonian Magazine has a great feature on the new museum….

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Four Sites Added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network

Four new sites have been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network These sites are, according to National Parks Traveller: The Gilmore Cabin at…

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October 17, 1871 Pres. Grant Suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus in Part of South Carolina

On October 17, 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended Habeas Corpus in nine counties in South Carolina. Over the previous year the Ku Klux Klan…

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